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Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress
Eve Dunbar Considers the Creative, Professional and Manual Labor of Black Women in America
By
Eve Dunbar
| November 13, 2025
On the Early Days of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Rise to Power
The Soviet Union General Secretary’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign, Initial Allies, and Rock-Star Beginnings
By
Mikhail Zygar
| November 12, 2025
Emma Darwin on Writing About Her Family and Finding Inspiration in Artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder
“What glowed at me with such potency that I would willingly immerse myself for all the months of writing slog?”
By
Emma Darwin
| November 12, 2025
What Does It Mean to be Human? (According to Philosopher Alexandre Kojève)
Boris Groys on the Nothingness of Human Existence
By
Boris Groys
| November 11, 2025
The History of the Relentless, Decades-Long Siege on the People of Gaza
“The average young Gazan measures his age by how many of those wars we survived.”
By
Muhammad Shehada
| November 10, 2025
How the Rise of Fascism Impacted the 1938 FIFA World Cup
Jonathan Wilson Explores the Political—and Personal—Upheaval at the Intersection of Politics and Sport
By
Jonathan Wilson
| November 7, 2025
Best Reviewed
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Why the American Revolution Was a World War in All But Name
By
Richard Bell
| November 7, 2025
Want to understand the Zohran phenomenon? Here's a mini reading list.
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Brittany Allen
| November 6, 2025
The NYC Mayor Fiction Canon (or why Adams should probably write a crime thriller).
By
James Folta
| November 6, 2025
So,
Do
Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism?
Kristen R. Ghodsee on the Tangle of Sex, Money, and Women’s Independence
By
Kristen R. Ghodsee
| November 6, 2025
Abel Ferrara Starred in His First Feature, a Mob-Backed Porno
The Acclaimed Director Looks Back on the Start of His Legendary Career
By
Abel Ferrara
| November 6, 2025
A Brief History of American Socialism
Michael Kazin on the Socialism’s Far-Reaching Influence on American Thought
By
Michael Kazin
| November 5, 2025
What Donald Trump’s Isolationism Means For America—and the World
Michael McFaul on the Challenges Facing the Liberal International Order From Outside and From Within
By
Michael McFaul
| November 5, 2025
The Succession Crisis of Queen Elizabeth I
Tracy Borman on the Altered Manuscript Depicting the Naming of Queen Elizabeth’s Heir
By
Tracy Borman
| November 4, 2025
How Two Nuns and a Jesuit Might Persuade You to Finally Download that Dating App
Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita on the “Close Friendship” Between 16th-Century Nun Sor Juana Inés and Vicereine María Luisa
By
Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita
| November 4, 2025
How Israel’s “Forgotten” 1956 Occupation of Gaza Echoes In Its Actions Today
Anne Irfan on the Repetition of History and How the Past Informs the Present
By
Anne Irfan
| November 3, 2025
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November 13, 2025
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Adrian McKinty
How Southern Crime Fiction Became a Publishing Powerhouse
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by
Leigh Dunlap
Silence That Screams: On Hysteria, Hauntings, and Why Every Story Is a Ghost Story
November 13, 2025
by
Meagan Church
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
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